10 Essential Avengers Villains Not Yet Used In The Movies
What are you waiting for, Marvel? Give us the goods! Or bads, in this case...
Even with all the complaints about how bland Marvel movie villains have been in the past, the MCU's big bads are on the comeback trail, with nothing but praise for more recent villains like The Vulture, Hela, and Erik Killmonger in early reviews of Black Panther.
That's definitely progress, but with some of Marvel's biggest villains already used - not to mention the ones unavailable thanks to rights issues - you'd think it would be difficult to keep the standards up so high. What Marvel Studios need is another big hitter from the comics.
The good news is that Disney's adoptive superhero brainchild wants to keep its momentum going, there's a plethora of great and interesting villains from the comics to choose from, many of them with backstories and events to go with them, trials the MCU's flagship team could face that would knock the socks off audiences for years to come.
Fans of the comics are still hoping to see these villains grace the silver screen, and with no end in sight for the MCU's success and cinematic superiority, their time shouldn't be long in coming.
10. Graviton
Though not as iconic as most of the others on this list, Graviton's power set and past clashes with the Avengers in the comics makes him an intimidating opponent. A scientist gone mad with power—literally and figuratively, Graviton (if you couldn't guess from his name) can control the gravitational field around him on a massive scale, making him one of the more cataclysmic villains on this list.
In the comics, he's faced down The Avengers and The Fantastic Four, and given the Disney-Fox Merger, may do so again onscreen. He's already had an impressive outing in Chris Yost's Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes cartoon series, built up to as a man so dangerous he had to be put to sleep for years to prevent his powers from hurting others.
Proving to be a charismatic and intimidating enemy, if his Yost-verse origin story—a S.H.I.E.L.D. scientist whose experiment went wrong, who has the powers of a god and a grudge against Nick Fury—is incorporated into the MCU, it would make for a hell of a story.
Especially if, like in the Yost-verse, he was part of a multi-villain prison break where even he, with all his immense power, wasn't the most dangerous villain.